Product Description

This is an account of the conception, evolution and fighting record of the Spitfire.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1594436 in Books
• Published on: 1982-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

About the Author
Dr Alfred Price is a worldwide authority on aviation history and the leading name in Spitfire history. He writes on many aviation topics, and is the author of a bestselling book on the Battle of Britain, as well as Sky Battles and Sky Warriors in the Cassell Military Classics.

Customer Reviews

As fine a work on the subject as one could hope to find.
Just as "HMS Victory" was never decommissioned and went on to become the longest serving warship in any country's navy - and still is!, so there is a fully serviceable RAF Spitfire still operational with the Royal Air Force in the UK.

Anyone who has an interest in aircraft cannot fail to admire the Spitfire. There is something about that combination of genius of design coupled with the simplest of names which spells out legend. In this book, author Alfred Price has done the Spitfire justice and no reader could possibly be disappointed with the resultant work.

About the same size as a telephone directory - as also just about as thick, we are treated to page after page of fact and photograph. Each section adds it's own part to a story which slowly unfolds from the very beginning of this aircraft - an aircraft, incidentally which was originally designed purely to win the Schneider Trophy!, right through World War Two and beyond.

With important contributions made by not only those who flew them in wartime, but also from those who were on the receiving end as well, I consider this to be an outstanding record of a single type of aircraft which is probably unmatched anywhere.

Five stars are not enough for this excellent work.

NM

As fine a work on the subject as one could hope to find.
Just as "HMS Victory" was never decommissioned and went on to become the longest serving warship in any country's navy - and still is!, so there is a fully serviceable RAF Spitfire still operational with the Royal Air Force in the UK.

Anyone who has an interest in aircraft cannot fail to admire the Spitfire. There is something about that combination of genius of design coupled with the simplest of names which spells out legend. In this book, author Alfred Price has done the Spitfire justice and no reader could possibly be disappointed with the resultant work.

About the same size as a telephone directory - as also just about as thick, we are treated to page after page of fact and photograph. Each section adds it's own part to a story which slowly unfolds from the very beginning of this aircraft - an aircraft, incidentally which was originally designed purely to win the Schneider Trophy!, right through World War Two and beyond.

With important contributions made by not only those who flew them in wartime, but also from those who were on the receiving end as well, I consider this to be an outstanding record of a single type of aircraft which is probably unmatched anywhere.

Five stars are not enough for this excellent work.

NM